Rows on rows of aging red brick townhomes sit around a quiet grassy courtyard in a residential area of north Edmonton. Empty, lifeless. 

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Kinia Romanowska has lived in Edmonton’s Sweet Grass neighbourhood for the past eight years. 

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You could call it urban development a la mode — residential development with an ice cream shop down the street. If you look closely enough, you’ll find it’s happening in Edmonton. Not quite the missing middle you hear urban planners talk about — constructing multi-unit housing like triplexes and low-rise apartments — to increase urban density but rather increased residential development in more urban parts of the city with walkability to amenities being a key factor. 

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It’s a day many drivers have been waiting for for years: they will no longer have to wait for trains on 50th Street near the Sherwood Park Freeway in east Edmonton. 

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Edmonton’s new homes market is booming across all housing types. 

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The City of Edmonton is lagging behind some of its targets for processing development permits amid a surge of applications and a construction boom. 

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The Bank of Canada’s latest cut to its key interest rate — the agency’s third consecutive cut since June to 4.25 per cent — has raised questions about how the move might affect Edmonton’s housing market. 

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Big spending on big projects in recent years like expensive LRT lines and road upgrades is leaving little room for new major projects in Edmonton’s near future. 

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Edmonton now sits alone in having the second-highest unemployment rate of any major Canadian city, according to the latest jobs numbers from Statistics Canada. 

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A walk down Whyte Avenue shows a lot of empty storefronts. 

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